“If Hillary and Bill had just not tried to get so rich from 2009-2015, would she have won?” Tim Carney asked Friday. The answer is “yes,” but that’s only part of the story.

She would have still had the server, which was the real killer, (and the James Comey problem that came along with it), but the server and money stem from something else. That was her decision in 2008 to leave the Senate to serve in President Barack Obama’s cabinet. Had she stayed put and run as a active and serving member of Congress, she would most likely be president now.